{"id":997745,"date":"2026-03-12T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997745"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:07:14","slug":"whatsapp-facebook-and-messenger-will-now-warn-you-of-cyberfraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/12\/whatsapp-facebook-and-messenger-will-now-warn-you-of-cyberfraud\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger will now warn you of cyberfraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you rely heavily on WhatsApp and Messenger to go about your day, Meta has some good news for you as far as scam detection is concerned. Meta has unveiled a fresh suite of anti-scam protections across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger, designed to alert users to suspicious behaviour and help prevent fraudulent activity before it escalates. The announcements, focused particularly on high-risk tactics like unauthorised device linking and deceptive friend requests, come at a time when online scams continue to target vulnerable users worldwide, with India remaining a major hotspot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you rely heavily on WhatsApp and Messenger to go about your day, Meta has some good news for you as far as scam detection is concerned. Meta has unveiled a fresh suite of anti-scam protections across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger, designed to alert users to suspicious behaviour and help prevent fraudulent activity before it escalates. The announcements, focused particularly on high-risk tactics like unauthorised device linking and deceptive friend requests, come at a time when online scams continue to target vulnerable users worldwide, with India remaining a major hotspot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}